Word: carefulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some of the kinder, gentler items like the child-care tax credit may have to wait...
...perception has already taken hold: Bush is more sensitive and caring than Ronald Reagan, more of a hands-on administrator (could anyone be less?), a more accessible leader who will conduct spontaneous press conferences (if only to prove he is on top of his game), a pragmatic moderate willing to accommodate reality rather than rail against it. Already his excessive jingoism has been banished, out of sync with the style he seeks to project. (Was it really George Bush who said, after the Vincennes disaster last July, "I will never apologize for the United States of America...
...disdains those who claim that deficits do not matter. If asked, Bush would undoubtedly agree with the assessment of Alice Rivlin, a former head of the Congressional Budget Office. "The budget deficit," she told the Wall Street Journal, "has become a defense issue, a foreign policy issue, a health-care issue, an education issue. Getting the budget deficit behind us has become a test of our ability to govern...
...Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW)--which now represents a support staff that is 83 percent female--said that campus safety could become a bargaining issue when the University and HUCTW sit down for their first contract negotiations. Adding safety to HUCTW's longstanding advocacy for better child care services indicates that the union's agenda will be weighted heavily toward women's issues...
...assessment of what might have happened is this," Taylor said, "we had a great team in 1986. It was a team that could have taken care of itself at the national level. The next year we had a team nobody thought would do well and we finished fourth in the league. Last year we thought it would be automatic that we would do well again...